Problem Door Swapping with a Wrinkle Finish?

[Miata GT]

So I just got in my Grand SL Wrinkle Finish black a couple of days ago and it took a bit of fiddling to get the door to slide. Not a problem and to be expected with the finish.

But I also have a Grand Kawasaki Green with an SL tumbled aluminum door and while the wrinkle black door will go on the green, the bare aluminum door jams up tight trying to get it on the black SL, and I mean tight as in I thought I was going to bend the door trying to get it back off after getting it a third of the way on. That is the reverse of what I would expect to happen, if I expected it to happen at all.

Any similar experiences or suggestions?

 

[mackman]

PM Rob he will have the answer.

 

[redeyedancer]

You have paint in the tracks on the mod you can take the back side of a razor blade and clean out any paint build up in the tracks . We make sure the doors fit before they leave the shop its impossible for us to make sure every door will swap between mods

 

[Miata GT]

...We make sure the doors fit before they leave the shop its impossible for us to make sure every door will swap between mods

Of course!

It just seemed strange to me that a bare door wouln't fit where one with paint would. I'll give it a try! Thanks Rob!

 

[redeyedancer]

Of course!

It just seemed strange to me that a bare door wouln't fit where one with paint would. I'll give it a try! Thanks Rob!

Yes it does happen unfortunately We have recently made some adjustment to the door tracks to hopefully avoid this in the future

 

[Filthy-Beast]

without a micrometer it's hard to say for sure but to these old eyes the lip on bare doors appear to be slightly thicker than the lip on painted to make for the lack of paint....

 

[Miata GT]

Thanks, I'll take a look at it when i get home. That would be a bummer as that was one of the benefits of the colors I chose: swapability.

 

[Filthy-Beast]

After cleaning the tracks and a little wear I can slide any of my 6 doors onto any of the 3 grands. combo of bare, wrinkle and anodized grands and bare, wrinkle, anodized and brass doors.

 

[Rev. Stabard]

After cleaning the tracks and a little wear I can slide any of my 6 doors onto any of the 3 grands. combo of bare, wrinkle and anodized grands and bare, wrinkle, anodized and brass doors.

Yep, my black wrinkle grand door at first was a tight, but not too tight, fit when I first got it. If you slid the door up it wouldn't drop on its own. Now it slides like a hot knife through butter. The tracks will clear themselves with time, and not a lot of it, if you don't want to scrape the tracks. They'll just naturally break in I'm sure.